look around south america. they have democracy processes in some countries, and to processes mean when you're elected or the president, you have a longer term. in mexico, for example, there's a six year term. it's one term, but gives you more time to think aboutth structural problems without having the election. i find it baffling that you just had elections in the united states just a few months ago, midterms in november, and here we are already much of the discourse on television in the united states is about the next election which is next year. where does policymaker have the scope or bandwidth to focus on problems. everybody acknowledges it's there, infrastructure, education, energy efficiency, without main taping what's their big thing which is to stay in power. >> host: this isn't something addressed in the book or maybe i forgot it, but is there any evidence that longer terms or anything like that result in better policymaking? i get the feeling that if you're a poor country, you're hungry, and therefor